Saturday, April 25, 2009

HB 1388 - You Cannot Serve Two Masters


A piece of legislation which may have slipped under the radar, HB 1388, named the “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education” bill (GIVE), has some interesting and alarming inclusions for young people who accept a student loan. The strings attached to such student loans would be mandatory service for a minimum of three months in “Obama’s Youth Brigade”.

The kind of service required brings to mind a brown shirted youth brigade, reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and has yet to face much if any public scrutiny; however, SEC. 1310 SEC 132A, which was removed and previously listed as SEC. 1304. Section 125, basically forbids church attendance in any way shape or form.

While written in such a way as to prohibit persons from using their position as volunteers to actively promote a specific religion, which would violate the current interpretation of separation of church and state; 1310 SEC 132A also acts to prohibit that same volunteer from participating in his/her private religion through simple attendance of a religious meeting or witnessing of the truthfulness of the gospel.

Our constitutional form of government defines, and supposedly protects the rights of individuals from abusive and tyrannical government usurpations of power, to either participate in religious endeavors or to be free from such participation, not by governmental decree; but through individual choice granted established by our Creator.

From what I’ve observed, the Obama administration and their efforts to alter America from its foundations which at one time clearly established this nation “Under God”; but which now point toward a socialist/communist replacement form of totalitarian tyranny (my way or the high way, or as I’ve heard it expressed, “We won so shut up!). The clarity of HB 1388’s purpose becomes “self evident” ( I couldn’t resist, my apologies); if you accept money from the government you forfeit (GIVE-UP, again my apologies) your inalienable birth right of choice as guaranteed under the First Amendment.

Simply put if you are in Obama’s Brigade government becomes your god; you cannot serve two masters .

"The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is also the first section of the Bill of Rights. It is arguably the most important part of the U.S. Constitution, as it guarantees freedoms of religion, speech, writing and publishing, peaceful assembly, and the freedom to raise grievances with the Government. In addition, it requires that a wall of separation be maintained between church and state. It reads:"

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

You will notice the particular article from which I linked has included a statement, “requires that a wall of separation be maintained between church and state”, which the Supreme Court has ruled is included within the wording of the First Amendment and which, if you read the words printed therein, do not appear.
I find the modern day attempts to remove religion from our history by altering and destroying references in our founding documents more than alarming; this should be considered criminal, and yet, this is what we as a people have come to expect from our government.

What the First Amendment says is, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”, a far cry from the modern day interpretation intended to remove God from America. HB 1388 is, by its own definition, in direct violation of constitutionally guaranteed individual rights by “prohibiting the free exercise thereof”.

I’ll go a step further by reminding anyone interested; America’s foundations are rooted in the Judeo/Christian acknowledgement to our Creator Who provided His people the fundamental laws by which to live through the Ten Commandments. Here again, modern interpretation of our history would have us ignore such a statement; however, the symbols of the Ten Commandments are embedded in many of our national buildings to include the Supreme Court.

Obama’s Brigade volunteers will have the government as its god, for you cannot serve God by legislative decree. I guess “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” must have been replaced with HB 1388, at least as long as you are a “government volunteer”.

Many believe as I do that America is the “promised land”, not much different than Israel was the “promised land” to those escaping Pharos enslavement in Egypt. It is the land where our Creator established a righteous government, one which would always recognize Him as the head and Author of individual Rights and Liberty.
Our Declaration of Independence was written to establish a new nation and to escape the rule of tyranny under King George III in favor of self governance under the “Laws of Nature and of Nature's God”; a far cry from the imagined “separation of Church and State” imposed by a Supreme Court’s intentional misrepresentation of history.

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

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